Salt cellar with Aesop’ Fables

after Pierre Raymond, c. 1560

Salt cellars with this round, slender shape were designed in the course of the 1550s. The scenes in the frieze represent the fables written by the Greek storyteller Aesop.

  • Artwork typesalt (condiment vessel)
  • Object numberBK-17217
  • Dimensionsheight 8.2 cm x diameter 12.7 cm, diameter 12.7 cm